The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences, analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs transformed, and traces the rise of complementary concepts such as those of probability, risk, fate and contingency. Thus, a multidisciplinary team of contributors sheds light on the surprising ways in which the end of Fortuna intersected with the rise of modernity.

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Information

Publisher

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Year

2017

ISBN

9783110452594

Edition

Topic

Historia

Subtopic

Historia moderna

Index of Persons

Alain de Lille 1
Albert VII, Archduke of Austria 1
Alberti, Leon Battista 1, 2, 3
Albizzi, Piero degli 1
Albrecht von Johansdorf 1
Alciati, Andrea 1
Aldegrever, Heinrich 1
Alexander the Great 1
Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara 1
Alfonso V (of Aragon) 1
Altdorfer, Albrecht 1
Amman, Jost 1
Anarcharsis 1
Andersson, Christiane 1, 2
Aphthonius of Antioch 1
Appuhn-Radtke, Sibylle 1
Ariosto, Ludovico 1
Aristotle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Arnauld, Antoine 1
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus 1
Bacon, Francis 1
Baronio, Cesare 1
Bazán, Alonso de 1
Bazán, Álvaro de, Marqués de Santa Cruz 1
Beck, Ulrich 1
Bellarmino, Roberto 1
Bellenger, Yvonne 1
Bellini, Giovanni 1
Bernger von Horheim 1
Beyerlinck, Laurentius 1
Blumenberg, Hans 1
Boccaccio, Giovanni 1, 2
Bocchi, Achille 1
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Borromeo, Carlo 1
Bouwsma, William 1, 2, 3
Bovelles, Charles de (Carolus Bovillus) 1
Boyle, Robert 1
Brant, Sebastian 1, 2, 3
Brébiette, Pierre 1
Bridget of Sweden 1
Bruder Wernher 1
Bruno, Giordano 1
Brunschvicg, Léon 1
Buonarroti, Michelangelo di see Michelangelo
Burckhardt, Jacob 1, 2, 3
Burman, Lars 1
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro 1, 2
Calvete de Estrella, Juan Cristóbal 1
Cantarini, Simone 1
Cassirer, Ernst 1
Castiglione, Baldassare 1
Cervantes de Salazar, Francisco 1
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1, 2, 3
Charles V 1, 2, 3, 4
Checa Cremades, Fernando 1, 2
Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Coecke van Aelst, Pieter 1, 2
Cooper, Thomas 1
Coriolano, Bartolomeo 1
Corneille, Pierre 1
Cortés, Hernán 1
Coudrette, Christophe 1
Covarrubias, Sebastián de 1
Coverdale, Myles 1
Cuyk, van Hendrik 1
Dante, Alighieri 1, 2, 3, 4
Dasypodius, Petrus 1
Dauzat, Albert 1
De Landtsheer, Jeanine 1, 2, 3, 4
Dekker, Thomas 1
Delmarcel, Guy 1
Delrio, Martin 1
Demosthenes 1
Descartes, René 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Dewey, John 1, 2
Diderot, Denis 1
Dietmar der Setzer 1, 2
Diogenes Laërtius 1
Dippel, Johann Conrad 1
Donne, John 1
Doria, Andrea 1
Dratz, Jean 1
du Puys, Remy 1
Dubois, Jean 1
Dunkley, John 1
Dürer, Albrecht 1, 2, 3, 4
d’Anlézy, Imbert 1
Ebelmann, Johannes 1
Elizabeth I 1
Elliott, John H. 1
Erasmus of Rotterdam 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Faber, Basil 1
Fajardo Saavedra, Diego de 1
Falconi, Bernardo 1, 2
Febvre, Lucien 1
Ferdinand I 1
Fleming, Paul 1, 2
Fludd, Robert 1
Forsius, Sigfrid Aron 1
Foucault, Michel 1
Frauenlob (Henry of Meissen) 1
Frederick William I (of Prussia) 1
Freud, Sigmund 1
Friedrich, Hugo 1
Friedrich, Susanne 1
Fries, Johannes 1
Galilei, Galileo 1, 2
Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott 1
Giddens, Anthony 1, 2
Gilbert, Felix 1, 2, 3
Giraud, Yves 1, 2, 3
Goclenius, Rudolph (the Elder) 1
Gorski, Philip 1
Gottfried von Straßburg 1, 2
Gracián, Baltasar 1, 2, 3, 4
Graf, Urs 1, 2, 3, 4
Gregory IX (Pope) 1
Grimm, Jacob und Wilhelm 1
Gryphius, Andreas 1, 2, 3
Guicciardini, Francesco 1, 2
Gustav II Adolf 1
Hacking, Ian 1
Hadot, Pierre 1, 2
Hafenreffer, Matthias 1
Hannibal 1
Haydn, Hiram 1
Heinrich von dem Türlin 1, 2, 3
Heinrich von Morungen 1
Hellerstedt, Andreas 1
Herckmans, Elias 1
Herrad of Landsberg 1
Hesiod 1, 2, 3
Hobbes, Thomas 1, 2
Hofmannswaldau, Christian Hoffmann von 1
Hogarth, William 1, 2
Holbein, Hans (the Younger) 1
Homer 1, 2
Hommel, Karl Ferdinand 1
Horn, Agneta 1
Horsch, Leonard 1
Huber, Franz 1, 2
Hus, Jan 1
Isabella (of Portugal) 1
Jago, Kerry 1
Johann von Ringgenberg 1, 2, 3, 4
Joncourt, Pierre de 1
Kant, Immanuel 1, 2
Kelin 1, 2
Kiefer, Frederick 1, 2, 3
Kirchner, Gottfried 1, 2, 3, 4
Kittsteiner, Heinz Dieter 1, 2
Koerner, Joseph Leo 1, 2
Koselleck, Reinhart 1
Labio, Catherine 1
Lactantius 1
Laelius Peregrinus 1
Lange, Joachim 1
Law, John 1, 2
Leclerc, Jean 1
Legay, Marie-Laure 1, 2, 3
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1, 2, 3
Leonardo da Vinci 1, 2
Lessius, Leonardus 1
Leti, Gregorio 1
Leyva, Alonso de 1
Lipsius, Justus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Livy 1
Louis II (of Hungary) 1
Louis XVI (of France) 1, 2
Ludwig II (of Hungary) 1
Luhmann, Niklas 1
Lundebergius, Josephus 1, 2
Luther, Martin 1, 2, 3
Maaler, Josua 1
Machiavelli, Niccolò 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Magirus, Johannes 1, 2
Makropoulos, Michael 1
Malebranche, Nicolas 1
Manrique, Jorge 1
Mantegna, Andrea 1
Manuel I (of Portugal) 1
Maravall, José Antonio 1
Marguerite de Navarre 1
Marlowe, Christopher 1
Mathias von Linköping 1, 2
Maximilian I (emperor) 1
Medici, Nannina de’ 1
Meissner 1, 2, 3
Mena, J...

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
The Late Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity
The Relationship between Regularity and Irregularity in Middle High German Poems on Fortuna
Fortuna’s Sea Change Renaissance Poetics of Contingency
Justus Lipsius (1547–1606): Fortune and War
Fortuna Revalued On the Goddess’s Sexualisation in the Renaissance
Fortuna in Seventeenth Century Spain
The Death of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity
Farewell to Fortuna – Turning towards Fatum
Fortuna in Early Modern Sweden
La Fortune victime des Lumières ?
List of Illustrations
Index of Persons